Books that made you smarter for having read them?

Kathleen04

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:25 PM
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Books that made you smarter for having read them?

Can be political or not. List them here. :)

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WritingIsMyReligion

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:29 PM
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1. Smarter??

How dare you insinuate that I am not already the smartest person on this planet?? I don't need no stinkin' books!

:D :D

Hahaha, no, I'm just being lazy. I dunno what books have made me smarter. Some have, for sure. The Scarlet Letter cracked my brain open, I know. Hawthorne is far too sparing with punctuation. :crazy::crazy:

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Kathleen04

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:33 PM
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4. I don't really know either

I guess that's why I asked. :) I'm feeling kind of intellectually lazy right now..which is kind of similar to feeling fat. :silly:

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:32 PM
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2. Let's see. The Prince by Machiavelli.

Most books on Differential Equations. System Simulation by Gordon. Quantum Mechanics by Liboff.

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XNASA

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:33 PM
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3. Hop on Pop.

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terryg11

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:33 PM
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5. Dune

read that in seventh grade and could just feel my already over stimulated imagination growing.

Sinclair's the Jungle

do textbooks count?

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Kathleen04

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:35 PM
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6. Textbooks can count!

Especially if they held your attention, those can be rare.

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terryg11

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:39 PM
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8. most of my classes

helped shape my intellect so obviously they would count towards making me smarter

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elshiva

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Sun Jan-08-06 10:36 PM
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7. Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Original Blessing by Matthew Fox

The Redemption of God by Isabel Carter Heyward

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pintobean

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Sun Jan-08-06 11:10 PM
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9. All of them.

I've learned something from every book that I've ever read. Even if it was just that the book or author sucks.

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begin_within

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Sun Jan-08-06 11:14 PM
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10. "One, Two, Three, Infinity" (George Gamow). "The Universe and Dr. Einstein

(Lincoln Barnett)

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